IMC 2009: Sessions

Session 807: Suffer the Little Children?: Health, Disease, and Disability among Children in Medieval Society

Sponsor:	Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past
Organiser:	Dawn Hadley, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Moderator/Chair:	Irina Metzler, Independent Scholar, Bristol
Paper 807-a	Childhood Health in Early Churchyards (Language: English) Jo Buckberry, Division of Archaeological, Geographical & Environmental Sciences, University of Bradford Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life
Paper 807-b	All God's Children?: A Biocultural Approach to Disease and Disability in Early Medieval Western Britain (Language: English) Katie Hemer, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life
Paper 807-c	Issues of Child Health in Urban and Rural Settlements in Medieval England (Language: English) Mary Elizabeth Lewis, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life
Abstract	This session explores aspects of the health of children in medieval society from an archaeological perspective. The papers address the possibilities and the limitations of osteological data for understanding health, and they compare the health status of children in a range of settlement contexts. The burial provision afforded children with compromised health or physical impairments is addressed, permitting insights into attitudes to the sick and disabled.